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Burnettown, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the North Augusta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29851. The Survey maps it on the Graniteville quadrangle. 3,105 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 185 feet above sea level.

Burnettown within Aiken County

Population over time

2 figures

Burnettown grew from 2,673 to 3,105 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20102,673
20203,105+432 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

602 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 602 fires within 5 miles of Burnettown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,916 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 110 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined167
Debris and open burning152
Arson/incendiarism110
Misuse of fire by a minor105
Equipment and vehicle use17
Natural13
Smoking9
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Other causes9
Recreation and ceremony7
Fireworks3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2008Natural2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aiken County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 48 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 48 workings within 5 miles of Burnettown: 19 past producers, 17 unknowns, 12 producers. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kaolin, Titanium, Zirconium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Horse CreekTitanium, Zirconium, REE, ThoriumUnknownPlacer-Modern-Fluvial
Horse CreekREEPast Producer
Unidentified MineStone, DimensionPast ProducerIgneous Intrusive
Unidentified Mine(Horse Creek Mine)Zirconium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE, TitaniumPast ProducerSedimentary Kaolin
Aiken Kaolin DistrictKaolinProducer1852
Barden MineKaolinUnknown
Graniteville MineKaolinProducer
Langley MineKaolinProducer
Augusta Sand and Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownUnconsolidated Sediments
Clearwater MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Aiken County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Langley0.3 miles19
Lynwood0.8 miles19
Jacksonville0.9 miles19
Langley Villa1.1 miles19
Gloverville1.2 miles19
Bath1.3 miles19
Horse Creek1.6 miles20
Ridgecrest1.8 miles20

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BurnettownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2530105The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231108. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.